In honor of Asian-American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we recognize astronauts with Asian roots who have flown to the International Space Station and contributed to its assembly, operations and research activities. They were preceded in space by other pioneers.
Asian-American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we recognize astronauts with Asian roots who have flown to the International Space Station and contributed to its assembly, operations and research activities. They were preceded in space by other pioneers.
For his second visit to the space station in December 2006, Polansky served as commander of STS-116, the flight that delivered the P5 truss segment to the orbital laboratory. The first post-Columbia crew rotation took place during STS-116, in which NASA astronauton the Expedition 14 crew. The STS-116 astronauts conducted four spacewalks to install and connect the P5 truss and to reconfigure the station’s electrical power channels, some of the most complex tasks ever accomplished in space.
Far left: NASA astronaut Sunita L. Williams, upper left, with her STS-116 crewmates and the ExpeditionMiddle right: Williams conducting a session of a Canadian coordination experiment in theFar left: NASA astronaut Sunita L. Williams participates in the Boston Marathon. Middle left: Williamscrewmates and the STS-117 crew that she was about to join.
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